Attitash Mountain Resort

The Living New Deal project database records that the Works Progress Administration funded "initial construction" of a ski area at this Bartlett site starting in 1938, employing 38 men, citing the Town of Bartlett's own annual report for the fiscal year ending January 31, 1939 -- predating the resort's 1965 commercial opening under the Attitash name. Mt. Attitash opened with free skiing on January 26, 1965, with 41 acres of terrain across four trails and two slopes served by a 900-vertical-foot Mueller double chairlift, according to New England Ski History. Attitash's founder, Phil Robertson, had a prior association with Cranmore, and New England Ski History says Attitash "included similar wide trails, a Carroll Reed ski shop, and the same restaurant manager" as a result. Attitash was purchased by LBO Resort Enterprises in July 1994, and following the 1995-96 season, Attitash Bear Peak "was rolled into the American Skiing Company along with its sister LBO Resort Enterprises areas," per New England Ski History. The resort was "quietly renamed Attitash" in 2004, dropping "Bear Peak" from its name. On April 5, 2007, Attitash and Mount Snow were sold together to Peak Resorts for $73.5 million, plus $2 million of debt assumption, according to New England Ski History. Vail Resorts closed its acquisition of Peak Resorts on September 24, 2019, adding Attitash Mountain Resort among 17 U.S. ski areas to its portfolio, according to Vail Resorts' own press release. During the 2018-19 season, Attitash's Summit Triple chairlift broke down repeatedly, including a February 23, 2019 malfunction traced to a bullwheel and gearbox issue that closed the top half of the mountain, according to the Conway Daily Sun. Attitash's own website states that its high-speed quad "The Mountaineer" replaced the "fixed-grip Summit Triple Lift" and was "named to honor the historic railway that travels through the Valley." New England Ski History's lift database records that Attitash's Kachina Triple chairlift was installed for the 1997-98 season after being relocated from the North Peak Triple at Sunday River, Maine. On February 2, 2025, a chair on Attitash's Flying Bear lift detached, causing its single occupant to fall about 20 feet; the skier was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to NBC Boston -- the Flying Bear lift was built to serve Bear Peak's terrain for the 1995-96 season, per New England Ski History. Attitash is listed as an Epic Pass mountain on its own website's pass offerings for the 2026/27 season, alongside the Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Pass, Northeast Midweek Pass, and Epic Day Pass.